CCC Hosts 29th Annual Muse Machine STEAM Institute for Teachers

Please let me know if you’d like to come on campus to do an interview for the following (they’ll be here all week):

This week Chapman Cultural Center is hosting our 29th annual Muse Machine STEAM Institute, serving teachers from all over the state of South Carolina! 

We will have 21 teachers on campus all week learning new ways to inspire and challenge their students through the arts!

Dr. Derek Fenner, Art Professor at USC Upstate, and master teacher/visual artist Cindy Riddle will be the instructors for the week. There will also be guest presenters, including dance specialist Kellianne Floyd and percussion artist Jeff Holland!

Now funded by a grant from the S. C. Department of Education, with our local education sponsor Milliken (see our schedule for Tuesday next week). CCC Education Director Ava Hughes says "I feel that, especially since Covid, teachers need to nurture their own creative spirits in order to foster creativity in their students.

About Our Institute:

For more than 20 years, Chapman Cultural Center has presented a three-credit-hour graduate course for teachers from around South Carolina. The Muse Machine Institute is focused on creativity and arts integration, as well as on Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences and STEAM (science/technology/engineering/arts/math), to help teachers find new ways to teach any classroom subject through the arts. Through our participation in the John F. Kennedy Center Partners in Education Program, as well as serving on several state-wide boards, we are able to stay ahead of the next big thing.

In selecting themes for our Institute, we constantly try to stay ahead of the curve, to remain relevant, and to address topics that equip South Carolina educators to face coming trends in education, while keeping the focus on the importance of the arts in producing well-rounded students.

Please reach out to me for more details or to request an interview!